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The US will quit the United Nations’ culture and education agency Unesco, the US state department said on Tuesday, as Donald Trump continues to pull out of international institutions. “Unesco works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the UN’s sustainable development goals, a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our …

CNN  —  The Department of Justice said it plans to reach out to Ghislaine Maxwell for a meeting amid recent calls for the associate of Jeffrey Epstein to testify about the accused sex trafficker. “Justice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: what do you know? At @AGPamBondi’s direction, …

An investigation is underway after a Vietnamese national died in the hospital on Saturday while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to an email seen by NBC News. Tien Xuan Phan, 55, had been in custody at the ICE Processing Center in Karnes County, Texas, for seven weeks. A representative for the family did not respond to a request …

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The death of an unarmed 52-year-old man who died after an Alabama police officer kneeled on his neck was ruled a homicide by a county coroner, according to an official autopsy reviewed by The Associated Press. The finding led lawyers representing Phillip Reeder’s family on Monday to compare his death to that of George Floyd in 2020. The report issued …

A store clerk who confessed to kidnapping and killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 should get a new trial and be released from prison in the meantime, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. A jury convicted Pedro Hernandez of felony murder and kidnapping in 2017, after he confessed to luring Patz into a basement as the child walked to his …

Officials mourn a 9-year-old girl’s death in upstate New York  WGRZ Canadian father murdered daughter, 9, on New York trip before kidnapping claim near Lake George: police  Fox News Missing girl at center of N.Y. Amber Alert was murdered by her father, state police say  CBS News Missing girl Melina Frattolin found dead in NY; father charged  USA Today Girl’s father praises ‘beautiful’ daughter …

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances. If approved, the wide-ranging changes unveiled this month also would affect working conditions at constructions sites and in …

Attorneys for man punched by JSO officer in viral traffic stop video say police report is ‘divorced from reality’  firstcoastnews.com Video of Jacksonville sheriff’s officer hitting man in face during traffic stop prompts investigation  CBS News No criminality in viral video of man being repeatedly punched by deputies: Sheriff  ABC News Police report of viral JSO traffic stop video says man was ‘verbally …